The Command Post - Global War On Terror

September 05, 2003

Score 125+ for 7

A shootout in Nablus : from The Australian :

An Israeli soldier was killed and four others wounded in a gunbattle early today with a Palestinian militant, who was also killed, in the northern West Bank town of Nablus, the army announced.

Sergeant Raanan Kumeimi, 23, a member of an elite marine unit, died during an operation seeking to arrest the Palestinian, who had been involved in anti-Israeli attacks, a spokesman said.

The Palestinian had opened fire on troops who cornered him on the fourth floor of a seven-storey building, which was later dynamited after residents were evacuated.

Meanwhile in Afghanistan, also from The Australian :

US troops are hunting down Taliban remnants in the mountains of southeast Afghanistan after a bloody offensive left around 100 militants dead, a US military spokesman said.

Up to 1000 Afghan soldiers supported by US troops and aircraft have been engaged for more than a week in the major operation against suspected Taliban and al-Qaeda bases in the mountains of Daychopan district of Zabul province, 300km southwest of Kabul.

US-led coalition Special Operation Forces and 10th Mountain Division troops backed by aircraft Saturday launched a fresh offensive in the Daychopan area, dubbed Operation Mountain Viper.

"Coalition forces continue to pursue anti-coalition forces. Operation Mountain Viper continues at the vicinity of Daychopan in Zabul province," Colonel Rodney Davis said.

"Enemy resistance in the last 24 hours has been relatively light.

"Coalition and Afghan militia forces have killed at least somewhere in the range of between 70 to 100 enemy personnel since the initiation of the operation."

Afghan military and intelligence officials said up to 124 bodies had been recovered after the fighting in the remote and mountainous area.

"In the 12 days of fighting around 124 Taliban have been killed whose bodies have been found on the ground and maybe they have taken some other bodies and injured with them," Zabul intelligence director Khalil Hotak said yesterday, after the main offensive ended.

He said five government soldiers were also killed and seven injured. One US soldier died in an accidental fall.

Posted by Alan Brain at September 5, 2003 07:10 AM | TrackBack

Comments

124 human vermin dead means 124 fewer formally trained human vermin to prey on humanity.

Replacements may be equally zealous, but they are not as well trained zealots. This should mean, over the course of time, easier kills on these human cockroaches.

Posted by: ScottAK at September 5, 2003 02:03 PM

It is getting so good that the Environmentalist Wackos are thinking about putting the Terrorists on the 'Endangered Species' list.

It's enough to put VF and Pass the Gas into such a tizzy that they will have to purchase land in New Mexico for a Terrorist Nature Reserve in their hopes to save the 'Terrorists' from extinction.

Although if the Democrats take over expect VF and Pass the Gas to suddenly have a wild and shocking personality change on the war on terrorism.

Posted by: Jeff MacMillan at September 5, 2003 07:30 PM

Dems are Only a little better than the repubs.

Evironmentalist Wackos are warning about ALL the
Depeleted Uranium munitions that were exploded in
Iraq and Afstan. Bad for Them and BAD for troops
exposed to the shells And the dust contaminated
by them. Kills the enemy and friendlies.
I Guess, Friendly Fire will be on the death cert
but it might take 20 yrs to die from radiation
poisoning but till they do they will Wish they
had. 350K troops from GWI sick and 250K on
disability..WHO WON !! The ones that Made the
munitions. Have another Round...

Posted by: VF at September 5, 2003 08:40 PM

VF - have a look at some facts regarding Depleted Uranium.

I know it's heavy going, lots of numbers, figures and facts rather than sound-bytes and ignorant opinion, but unfortunately the world is like that.

But maybe you can understand some of the words:

Even if the estimates of risk are one hundred times too low, it is unlikely that any excess of fatal cancer would be detected within a group of 10,000 soldiers followed over 50 years

Or have a look at an article dating back to 2002 at Bargaz

Or a more recent one

There appears to have been several casualties due to "Radiation Poisoning" though. It appears 2 US soldiers have died of it, after having being exposed to an unshielded Thermonuclear reactor.

It's called "sunstroke", and is no joke. There will be an increase in skin cancers due to increased exposure to sunlight, at 33 degrees north (Baghdad's latitude). But in Sydney, at 33 degrees south and with a thinner ozone layer, we live with it.

I'm in Canberra, at 35 degrees south. That's the equivalent of Mosul. But I live at an altitude of about 1000 ft, and in an area with lots of granite, so get far more radiation (other than sunlight) than even people with DU fragments in their bodies.

Still, never let facts get in the way of a good story.

Posted by: Alan E Brain at September 5, 2003 09:44 PM

AlanE VF sucks at baseball, softball and golf, but claims he can lob his balls over a net (tennis). I think he lost his marbles. You know, those steel ones made from HeavyMetal (DU).

Posted by: Cap'n SPIN at September 8, 2003 02:20 PM